Bonsai Styles is a three-book series that explores bonsai through history, structure, and spirituality. Each book uses a different design approach to reflect its content, shifting from a traditional manuscript grid to a more structured field guide, and finally to a freer, more expressive layout.

The first book focuses on the history of bonsai, featuring an essay from the Brooklyn Bonsai Museum. The second acts as a field guide to the ten primary bonsai styles, with a bilingual Japanese edition . The third book explores the spiritual connection between bonsai, nature, and people.

Across all three books, a series of ten original watercolor illustrations visually interprets each bonsai style.

book one :
the history

historical text sourced from
the Brooklyn
Bonsai Museum.

book two :
the styles

A modular grid system organizes
the ten primary bonsai styles

book three:
spirituality